CP Network Member Spotlight: 4 Questions For Manolis Tsipos (Athens & Amsterdam)

[Contemporary Performance]

Manolis Tsipos (Athens & Amsterdam)




Occupation:
performance maker, performer, writer, DasArts attendant

Bio
He was born in 1979. He is currently a participant of DasArts-Master of Theatre, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is co-founder of the theatre collective "Nova Melancholía", based in Athens, Greece. He is a performance maker, performer and writer.

1. Can you tell us a little about your work, your history and your performative concerns.
I am a performance maker, a performer and a writer. I come from Greece, but I am currently based in Amsterdam, where I am a DasArts participant (Master of Theatre, Amsterdam School of the Arts). My work is gradually moving towards researching the function of choreography and of dance in a performance, both physically and conceptually.

I have co-founded an Athens based collective, Nova Melancholia, which is a group that follows methods of physical and devised theatre and also methods of visual arts performance. My work with Nova Melancholia has been so far mainly site-specific and it tends to conceptualise the performer’s body as a living and moving sculpture on stage. Furthermore, the group prefers to stage non-theatrical texts, creating spectacles that combine both contemporary dramaturgy and unconventional playwriting.

I have also co-founded the Athens based Institute for Live Arts Research, which is an initiative about bridging the gap between the theoretic discourse on the contemporary performing arts and the performance making and all contemporary artistic practices.

 

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